The Irish standard., 1887-07-09
LABOR AND LABoRERs.

LABOR AND LABORERS.
The Cigar-makers' international Union
now numbers "a, 172.
SOUTHERN cotton-mills are paying from
ten to twenty per cent dividends.
TRENTON, N. j., is to have new cooper.
alive pottery. The shares are five dollars
each.
The demand for skilled labor in Western
furniture factories is increasing for fall
trade work.
GALVESTON, Tex, and Denver, COL, are
being supplied with structural iron from
Pittsburgh.
THREE THOUSAND workers connected
with the Chicago building trades have
found employment elsewhere.
The stove-molders in Pittsburgh and AL.
legheny have returned to work. the trouble
about the struck patterns having been
amicably settled.
The difficulty at the Harrisburg (Pa)
iron and steel works has been amicably
adjusted. The men have returned to work
at 1920 per ton, the old rate.
THERE is not an agricultural implement
in the Transvaal region, Africa, but that
is of American make. In one locality 3d.
600 American plows are used.
A WIRE rope has just been made at New.
castle, Eng, half a mile long and six and
one-half inches in circumference. The
breaking strain is 175 tons.
A PARTY of English capitalists have
made extensive mineral investments near
Cumberland Gap, KY, with view to coal
development and the building Of iron
works.
A MACHINE weighing twenty-six tons
can polish piece of shafting in two
minutes which would require two days
time of skilled mechanic. It is at Beaver
Falls, Pa.
A BUILDING and loan association has
been established in Milwaukee, with cap.
ital of S., OOo 600, to build houses for me.
chanics and laborers. Capital is being at
tracted in that direction.
THREE Ontario weavers have invented q
process of weaving cloths Of mixed ma
terials 80 that they shall be inseparably
woven, showing one surface Of hemp or
jute and the other OF cotton or wool.
The DePauw glass polishers at the
works in New Albany, Ind, have been on
strike some time. The DePauw Com.
pany sent to Belgium for glass polls hers,
and they have arrived and more are CONF
ing.
SILVER and gold mining is attracting
more capital The silver production has
increased in the ratio of $50 IN 1880 to $51
in 1886. Silver production has increased
throughout the world from $62, ,000, 600 in
1882 to 1924, OO0. 600 in 1885.
FROM all that can be learned there is no
general disposition among any branch Of
the glass working fraternity to demand
an advance in wages or endeavor to effect
such changes as are likely to prolong the
regular stoppage Of the works beyond
September 1.
A SYNDICATE has been formed to operate
Kentucky gas fields on large scale. A
s2,000,000 company has been formed at
Parkersburg, W. Va. A we'll is making
1870 900 feet per day at Lima, O. The
fame is twenty-fv feet in diameter and
fifty feet high. Pittsburgh prospectors
have 5000 acres of land bought away down
in Texas.
DURING the first five months Of this year
48O strikes have been reported, involving
226, ,SO3 wage workers, against 164 strikes
for the same time last year, involving
364, $50. During May, 1886, $4,000 struck,
against $4,000 for May, 1885. The build.
ing trades show 1853 on strike; coal
miners and coke makers, IL, $50; boot and
shoe strikers number $3.50!
A UNION molder from England visited
Switzerland last year and urged the mold
ers of that country to organize. Their
union now has twelve branches, including
about two-thirds of all the molders in the
country. Steps are now being taken for
the aff1liation of all the iron molders'
unions of Europe and America, inter-
change of cards and cooperation.
The demand for double strength sheet
glass has doubled during the past five
years, and increased imports do not prove
that the native sheet glass is being dis
placed by the imported article. The in
creased demand for and consumption Of
double strength sheet glass reduces the
quantitive production of American WIN
dow glass, as double strength blower
only makes thirty-three fifty feet boxes,
while the single strength bio owers' limit is
forty y-eight fifty feet boxes per week.